Writing submission for March

People do many different things to stay healthy. What do you do to maintain your health?

Until recently I had believed that one could stay healthy unless he did something unhealthy. This might have been true to some extent, especially when you are young. However, I have started to realize that being healthy requires a little more than that.

When I was young, I did not need to worry about my diet as long as I lived with my parents and ate my mother's meal meals. I could do reasonable exercise just by going to school. I had to run up stairs to catch a train and swim in a pool twice a week not for fun but for a PE class. I thought people who needed to worry about health were those who drank alcohol a lot, smoked a cigarette cigarettes a lot, and did not do any exercise.

However, when I got pregnant, I had to give more consideration to weather  whether I was leading a healthy life, not only for myself but also a baby growing inside me. Just going to work does not provide enough exercise any more. I do not drink alcohol nor smoke a cigarette cigarettes, but junk foods are all around and hard to avoid. I love eating out to save time and have relaxed time, but the meal at a restaurant is not as healthy as the one you make. For the first time, I felt I needed to do something to stay healthy.

My eating habit has been changed habits have changed a lot. The biggest reason is that with my little baby I cannot eat outside eat out as often as I did and am forced to cook myself. A nutritionist told me to eat fish everyday at one of the seminars for mothers-to-be. It is hard for me to follow that, but I try to make fish dishes every two or three days. I have not been able to spend a lot of time on exercise, but as my baby grows up, I will be forced to move eventually.